Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For the purposes of our exercise, let’s say our story takes place in India. In a small village in India, 9 year-old Fatima lives in a tiny hut with her parents Priya and Amit. Please give so that we can end childhood hunger in India and help these children realize their full potential. Setting: This is where your story happens.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2011

Then, over the next 12 hours, on comes nonprofits in India, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. The World Clock at timeanddate.com provides numerous time and date tools that make time zone conversion easy and timely (pun intended). Here’s how to begin: 1) Learn your time zones. 2) Download Google Chrome for easy translation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Previously, she produced the Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the U.S. Then check out Simply Measured.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

. —– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations and brands with a profile type akin to the options for individuals and Pages on Facebook. One of the core principles in community engagement is to use the tools your community is using.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

In India, for example, “missed calls” have become a campaign tool. Greenpeace India has used missed calls as a cheap and quick way to engage people and build lists. In one campaign, citizens rallied to oppose wide scale coal mining in central-eastern India ’s forests.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

Unfriended: Six Million Americans Fled Facebook Last Month – Culture – GOOD – "I told you last month why I thought everyone should get off Facebook, and it turns out people listened. That's the first time Facebook has lost U.S. users in over a year. The site also posted losses in Canada, the U.K.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2009

Activists around the world are using social media tools to make change. A new 50- minute documentary film called " 10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action " is a guide to how best to use take advantage of the power of these tools and avoid hidden dangers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

How about Facebook friends in India? Just because you can translate a Facebook status update from English into Cantonese using a Google tool doesn’t mean that you should, nor is it an effective part of an international social media strategy. Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan? Probably not.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 6, 2012

Event planners need to understand how to leverage social media tools and platforms to reach potential attendees and maximize engagement in their communities. Join us for this free webinar and learn: How to use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other tools to maximize results for fundraising events. Dawn Michelle Andreas.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Facebook now boasts over 901 million active users, making it, by population, the world’s third largest country. New Delhi, India – December TBA. This post is by guest blogger Ritu Sharma, who is the executive director of Social Media for Nonprofits. Silicon Valley, CA – July 26. Los Angeles, CA – August 14.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg fired up the death of email debate at the Nielsen’s Consumer 360 Conference Yesterday. Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks. In India it grew by 1250%.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

How do you talk about the enslavement of 30 million people in just 140 characters or in a simple Facebook post? Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania. They have found Twitter and Facebook quite effective for doing this. or read on for a recap. Please visit the site to view this video).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

We got nearly 2,000 mentions of the challenge on Facebook and Twitter in 25 countries. It is a moving one and a half minute video about the struggle of untouchable caste Dalit children in India to grow up and be as successful as more advantaged children. The Winners in Their Own Words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2011

So today is the day you can do some good with your social media tools. Go ahead, give G+, Facebook or your Tumblr a workout. Let’s use our digital tools and do some good. And, in that process, hopefully save the life of at least one person. Help Amit and others find a match with a tweet, a blog post, an email forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Anyone can set up a profile for an organization (it prompts for an EIN number ( but not required ) and Facebook account url) and you can opt to be the administrator. But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called “Networked NGO.” Then we each went at it, e-mailing our contacts with sample Facebook and Twitter messages to see if they would share with their networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. Gen Z Uses Digital Tools for Social Good, Not Social Currency. The current population of Gen Z is estimated to be about 2 billion, or 27 percent of the global population.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Provide Participants with Personalization Tools. Therefore, it's important to make sure your participants have the tools they need to succeed. Provide online tools that allow them to engage with their peers by explaining why they personally chose to get involved. Social Networking Links: links to Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. WFP USA also shared Rani’s story on Instagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Mani who will be using social media to raise money for heart surgeries for poor children in India. Britt included links to change bloggers and started a Changeblogger Facebook. Another change blogger, SocialButterfly has created a Changeblogger wiki where other change bloggers can add their information.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Facebook Advertising for Nonprofits. Naples, Florida: Tools for Effective Email Communication. Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Learn How You Can Use Adobe Spark and Other Storytelling Tools to Tell Stories. . ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

In fact, just last month, I took it to India. We wanted to give everyone a chance to get more familiar with the tools, and, more importantly, understand how social media is relevant to their goals. Not every table had a social media plan ready to execute (”handing out flyers” wasn’t one of the social media tools we encouraged!)

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. Gen Z Uses Digital Tools for Social Good, Not Social Currency. The current population of Gen Z is estimated to be about 2 billion, or 27 percent of the global population.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This month the news is about WiFi embedded in a magazine, Braille smartphones, ultramobile devices, innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the mobile app of the month. This is technology for good news from India.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

A team led by the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, is working on a battery-powered diagnostic device, costing less than US$100, which can monitor a patient's heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen levels. Nonprofits are also seeking to effectively use these powerful tools for social change.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

A team led by the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, is working on a battery-powered diagnostic device, costing less than US$100, which can monitor a patient's heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen levels. Nonprofits are also seeking to effectively use these powerful tools for social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

I really like the idea of using online organizing tools to bridge the gap that many in politics and media tell us are unable to be bridged, and to provide a way for folks to "meet" one another virtually in a way that reduces anxiety and amplifies commonality. At its most basic, PledgeBank is a positive peer pressure tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2014

Using Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr. Wildlife SOS – India. If I want to know what’s trending, research current best practices, or discover new tools relevant to nonprofit technology, she is always my top reference. Fundraising via smartphone apps and mobile wallets.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2006

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 20, 2011

Every day I field questions from organizations and community groups looking to use facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Most all of these groups are excited and enthusiastic but are coming from the wrong direction: focusing on the tools first. I myself was also almost a human trafficking victim for the purpose of forced marriage in India.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I can see someone said that they work in India. WhatsApp is huge in India. And it far surpasses the next one, which is Facebook Messenger. So it’s WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, a close third, but it surpasses all of the ones. So it’s a great tool for areas that have low internet connection. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

Their story was one of the ones that stood out the most for me from the series, so I was thrilled when a woman named Houria Iderkou, who set up a Causes campaign for KickStart on Facebook, contacted me to see if I'd like to interview Fisher. What are the tools that they are using to work on this? Britt Bravo:What is KickStart doing?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet.

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